Hilarious · Heartwarming · Chaotic · Underdog · Feel-good
They married heroes. They got chaos. Turns out saving the day is a team sport.
Everyone cheers when the superhero saves the day. Nobody asks who saved dinner.
The Married to a Superhero series follows the real unsung heroes of Shadow Town — the spouses left holding the grocery list while their partners fly off to fight evil. They didn’t sign up for supervillains. They signed up for marriage. Turns out those aren’t so different.
Not a superhero story. A marriage story. That happens to involve superheroes.
New Here? Start with The Secret Lives of Superhero Wives — three women, one suspicious earthquake, and the mystery their husbands completely missed. Or grab the collection of FREE short stories set in this universe.
The Untold Stories — because someone has to do the laundry
Book 1 – Start here
The Secret Lives of Superhero Wives
Their husbands save the world. They save the marriage. This time, they might just save both.
Ariana, Victoria, and Emma married superheroes. What they got was cold dinners, missed anniversaries, and husbands who are significantly better at fighting supervillains than remembering date night.
When a catastrophic earthquake tears through Shadow Town and everyone expects the heroes to handle it, these three women smell something off. And when nobody asks for their help — they decide to give it anyway.
Turns out the most powerful thing in Shadow Town isn’t a superpower. It’s three women who finally found each other.
Female friendship · Cozy mystery · Amateur sleuth · Marriage in trouble (light & relatable) · Underdog wins · Amnesia · Found sisterhood
A note on the ladies: Ariana, Victoria, and Emma could not be more different. One is holding her marriage together with sheer stubbornness. One is hiding a secret that changes everything. One is so competent at everything that her husband genuinely forgot she might need support too. Together, they are absolutely unstoppable — and readers consistently say their friendship is the heart of the whole series.
Book 2
The Superhero’s Husband
She has the powers. He has her back. That used to be enough.
Rhett has fought beside his superhero wife for eight years without a single superpower to his name. He doesn’t need one — until a villain arrives who does what none before could: makes Rayne look for help somewhere else.
Being sidelined is bad. Watching her turn to another hero is worse. But when his attempt to help accidentally hands the enemy an advantage, Rhett has something bigger than a villain to fight: his wife’s trust.
He can’t outrun lightning. He can’t match superstrength. But he’s never once stopped showing up — and he’s not about to start now.
Gender-flipped dynamic · Underdog hero · Marriage under pressure · Prove-your-worth arc · Villain mystery · Clean romance
FREE Short Story Collection
The Superheroes’ Wives
BONUS — Reader Exclusives: Three free short stories set in the Shadow Town world — perfect if you want to meet the series before you commit, or if you’ve finished both books and need just a little more.
The Stellar Life of a Superhero Wife — Devora and Derek’s marriage, like any other. Except Derek saves people as Silver Comet. Well, Devora saves people too — if only Derek would notice.
The Supernatural Life of a Superhero Wife — A fairy accidentally transported into a world full of superheroes, looking for her soulmate. Things escalate.
Four Calling Byrds — Christmas in Shadow Town. A new supervillain. A local hero who may have finally met his match.
This series is for you if…
- You love a romcom that makes you laugh out loud and tear up on the same page
- Underdog heroines who save the day without a single superpower speak to your soul
- You’ve ever felt like the least important person in the room — and proved everyone wrong
- Female friendship that holds cities together is your favorite kind of found family
- Gender-flipped dynamics (the husband without powers, the wife who flies) delight you
- Hallmark movie energy with a mystery twist sounds like a perfect Saturday
- You want clean romance — real relationships, real stakes, real happy endings
- You’ve never thought of yourself as a superhero reader — this series is specifically for you
Readers agree: the wives are the real heroes
“It’s part comic book, part fantasy, and part cozy mystery — and I enjoyed it immensely. Perfect for an evening in after a hard day.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
“I’m not a fan of superhero cartoons, but this book is really not about them. It’s about being married to a man whose priority is his job — not you.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
“You don’t need superpowers to save the day.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐
“Such a cute and funny book — love, lust, secrets, amnesia. Definitely worth the read.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐
“Reminds me of comics from a simpler time — before everything had to be cosmic and complicated. Stan Lee at his best.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
“Action, romance, drama, suspense, political treachery. A little something for everyone!” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
“This put a smile on my face and made my whole day a little brighter.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
“When the wives all finally met — BEAUTIFUL. This book had beautiful, recognizable, wonderful character development.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
“I haven’t read any of the other stories set in this world, but I’m doing that now.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
A Completely Unofficial Field Guide to Shadow Town
(Exclusive to this page — your insider’s guide to the world before you start reading.)
Shadow Town looks like any other city. There’s a coffee shop on the corner, a school a few blocks over, and a mayor who gives press conferences about infrastructure. The only difference is that roughly once a week, something explodes.
Here’s what the tourism board won’t tell you:
The superheroes are remarkable, genuinely heroic, and absolutely terrible at being married. Not because they don’t love their spouses — they do, desperately. But saving the world has a way of consuming a person, and they have a blind spot the size of a city block when it comes to the humans waiting for them at home.
The spouses are the most competent people in Shadow Town. They run careers, raise families, keep households functioning through earthquakes and evacuations and the particular chaos of a partner who occasionally comes home smelling like a housefire. They have been quietly, heroically holding everything together — and they are just about done being overlooked.
The villains are mostly not what you’d expect. The scariest antagonist in Book 2 turns out to be someone readers genuinely don’t see coming. Multiple reviewers have said so. We won’t say more than that.
The short stories are the best way to meet Shadow Town before you commit. Start with The Stellar Life of a Superhero Wife — it’s free, it’s funny, and it takes about twenty minutes. You’ll know by page two whether this world is for you.
(It is. It’s for you.)
Ready to root for the ones nobody expected?
Three women. One suspicious earthquake. Zero superpowers between them. Somehow, that turns out to be enough.
Finished Shadow Town and want something more villainous?
Nemesis: A Girl’s Guide to Supervillainy
Five women lose everything in a hero-made disaster—and decide to stop trusting heroes to fix it. They found their power, chose each other, and became the villains.
Now they’re the Ladies in Leather: a chaotic, superpowered crew juggling revenge plots, secret identities, and inconvenient feelings.
Think supervillain romance, found family chaos, and happily ever afters… with a little bite.